Altered book, detail shot, verso:
imagination
and
your dreams
are your chances for happiness
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Book page poetry, recto:
an excellent lover
will be
willing to learn
say yes
lucky girl
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#Reposting from @calligraphyhowto “Sugar” This is a fun word to calligraph–a very sweet treat. ?
Pen: Kuretake Fude Brush Pen, aka Zig Clean Color Real Brush
Paper: Arches Text Wove
Want me to write YOUR name in calligraphy? Enter the #namelottery! Here’s how (be sure to follow BOTH steps): 1. Follow @calligraphyhowto on Instagram.
2. Leave a comment on the ORIGINAL post (@calligraphyhowto Instagram), AND tag one or more Instagram friends. If I pick you, I’ll do your name AND your friends’, too! (Be sure to include your names!) And don’t forget to grab your FREE Brush Lettering Guides at http://bit.ly/1U0olPy! ?
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REPOST from @calligraphyhowto one is for another wonderful #creativesandbox community member, @lara_grauer, a photographic and mixed media artist who works with pets and people.
Love you, Lara!
Pen: Kuretake Fude Brush Pen, aka Zig Clean Color Real Brush
Paper: Arches Text Wove
Want me to write YOUR name in calligraphy? Enter the #namelottery! Here’s how (be sure to follow BOTH steps): 1. Follow @calligraphyhowto on Instagram.
2. Leave a comment on the ORIGINAL post (at @calligraphyhowto on Instagram), AND tag one or more Instagram friends. If I pick you, I’ll do your name AND your friends’, too! (Be sure to include your names!) And don’t forget to grab your FREE Brush Lettering Guides at http://bit.ly/1U0olPy! ?
#calligraphyvideo #calligraphy #brushlettering #brushcalligraphy #letteringleague #moderncalligraphy #calligrapher #calligraphersoninstagram #calligraphersofinstagram #instacalligraphy #brushtype #letteringco #handlettering #brushscript #handlettered #handletteredabcs #modernlettering
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When someone writes on Facebook that they wish they were camped out in your living room right now, it has a way of making you sit up and take notice.
Thanks to the wonders of Facebook notifications, I got an email the other day, letting me know that writer Lou Blaser had written just that, tagging me in the process.
It was a comment on her own status update to her Facebook profile. A status update that wrenched my heart, because I related to it so deeply.
Here’s what Lou wrote:
I read a page of Ian McEwan’s and my heart breaks, not in tiny tidy pieces, but in large sharp shreds.
I read a post by Julia Cameron and I just want to crawl back to bed.
These are my favorite writers. I devour what they write. Their words get under my skin. I live in their made-up worlds.
But when I read their work in comparison to mine, I shrink into the tiniest ant. I am torn between throwing their books at the wall, and shredding mine.
Their work and mine? They’re not even in the same country, let alone same ball park. How will I ever measure?
Such is the paralyzing exercise of comparison. And truly, what purpose does it serve?
Over and over, I repeat to myself. Every expert was once a beginner.
Your journey is your own. Your voice is your own. Comparing your work with others’ is disrespecting your own art.
#WritersLife
